An Israel Bond event hosted by Berkshire Hathaway Chairman, President & CEO Warren Buffett in Omaha, Nebraska last week raised over $80 million in Israel bonds investments and intentions to invest, The Jerusalem Post reported. “I’ve lived through Israel’s entire 70-year history and I believe it is one of the...

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An Israeli team specializing in treating victims of burns and respiratory diseases has been using an enzyme-based gel to treat patients suffering from burns resulting from the eruption of the Fuego volcano in Guatemala, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The gel was developed in Israel. Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed that the team was using an enzyme that...

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Israel’s security is in the “national interest” of Austria, the country’s chancellor Sebastian Kurz said on Monday in a speech to delegates in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported. Sidestepping standard procedure, Kurz had visited the Western Wall on Sunday, the first time in recent memory a leader of a...

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At COMPUTEX Taipei 2018 this week, Intel announced the launch this fall of two new-generation processors developed in Israel: the Whiskey Lake for laptops and Amber Lake for 2-in-1 computers. These processors will enable a double-digit performance improvement and support 1Gbps surfing. They’ll be integrated into 140 models of computers,...

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The IDF destroyed an underwater Hamas attack tunnel earlier this month, The Times of Israel reported Sunday. Israel struck at numerous Hamas targets on June 3 associated with Hamas’s elite naval forces. At the time the IDF said that it had struck “a military compound belonging to the naval force...

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made what he termed an “unprecedented” offer to Iran – or to the people of Iran – whom he described as “victims of a cruel and tyrannical regime that denies them vital water.” Netanyahu offered to share Israeli water saving technologies with them, in a...

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Israel accused Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed terrorist group based in Lebanon, of arming and training Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip bordering southern Israel, The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. The Post cited a report that appeared in the Lebanese paper Al Joumhouria that said that Israel had sent a letter to the United...

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Amsterdam-based consumer electronics giant Royal Philips has announced it will acquire cardiac imaging company EPD Solutions of Caesarea for €250 million ($294 million) and milestone payments. EPD and its employees will become part of Philips’ Image-Guided Therapy business unit. EPD’s Cardiac Mapping and Navigation System received CE mark approval in February 2018....

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Today, two diametrically opposed world views clash in the Middle East. One carries the message of love, respect, and freedom. The other is the embodiment of hatred, intolerance, and tyranny. Tens of thousands of people flocked to the streets of Tel Aviv on Friday as Israel’s 20th annual Gay Pride...

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A nanotech system invented in Israel for transporting anticancer drugs specifically in pediatric patients has been shown to slow tumor growth and prolong life expectancy in engineered mice by 42 percent. In most of the Western world, cancer is the primary cause of death in children over the age of...

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